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Scientific American, Vol. 60, No. 3 (January 1889) (1889)

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into The inventor has devised an original system of propul- or contraction of metal, the connecting central girders, such a receptacle, it takes a very peculiar shape, shown sion, by means of which every pound of steam power resting on the cantilevers, each weighing about 800 in Fig. 2. In Fig. 1… … found in blotting paper, in the drying action of a MERCURY TROUGHS. towel, and in many experiments founded on this gene- POURING WATER INTO A SIEVE. tion on this is shown. Here the tank is constructed of ral basis. Where the liquid wets the solid, the forces plates of glass parallel one to the…

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